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foActive announces release of <X>Styler 1.0, now available for download. <X>Styler 1.0

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Unbelievable!
Finally a product that allows marketers to create templates that the IT department can use to merge information with their system!
Scott Jensen

With <X>Styler you design the exact look and feel of your materials without been concerned with lengthy and difficult development of XSL templates (stylesheets). 

Integrated into Real Life Business Scenarios - When examining the market and usage, it is more than likely that the business process of designing the visual appearance of the final documents to be produced starts in the Marketing Department of an organization and utilizes the most common product on the market today for page design – Microsoft Word.  These Word documents are usually passed to an engineering team to implement. Then they map the style contained in Word using various proprietary applications and code.  This is a long process which requires resources and time delays to go from original design to an implemented application. 

<X>Styler solves these problems. It is directly integrated to Word, is easy enough to use for a Marketing person yet advanced enough that Engineering can create complex templates. <X>Styler keeps all the functionality within Word throughout the entire process. It does not require any re-keying of templates into an alternate system and most importantly, it hides all the complexities of XSL from non-experienced users.

Extended Mail Merging - The easiest parallel to <X>Styler is the current Word model for mail merge. But Word cannot be used as a publishing solution for many reasons, not the least of which is performance and stability. <X>Styler decouples the batch formatting from Word for use in  high performance print environments.

High Performance Server-based Formatting - The XSL templates designed with <X>Styler are moved to a high performance server-based formatting environment where Word is not required. In this environment, the hundreds, thousands of data files are merged with templates to produce documents which can then be further converted to XSL FO. And using RenderX XEP software to PDF, PostScript and AFP standards-based typeset-quality electronic and print output of business content. 

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<X>Styler creates an output XSL template though a single mouse click. This will reproduce the authored document in Word 2003 Professional's WordML format with content from the XML source. <X>Styler is able to infer repeating structures in the template allowing areas to be entered in the template only once while still ensuring these generate repeating structures in WordML. Built to transform a WordML document into XSL FO validated output.

Designed to replace costly XSL stylesheet development tools, <X>Styler is available for a fraction of the cost, improved performance, enabling faster releases and time to market of critical information.

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